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Website hosting that lets visitors to upload a picture
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madanthrax
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mrkyn,
When people want to upload pictures to your website, probably .jpg or .gif files, then the pages on your website do the work of uploading (maybe in combination with an upload component hosted by your host).
You will need to use an upload script depending on what scripting services are provided by your host (ASP, Pearl, PHP etc). Your host will have to enable a special folder on your site with modify access for web visitors to allow them to copy files there via your scripted web page.
If you achieve this then you will have a bunch of files in a folder on your website. How do people see them? Well there are a few scripts that will display a list of files in a folder and with a bit of fiddling you can make it a list of hyperlinks. Not too appealing, and once you get past 50 files it starts to become confusing.
To make it work nicely you need to use a database to store information about the files as they are uploaded which can then be used to find or group pictures by author, topic, date, etc. This means your web host needs to provide database services.
The above description assumes that you have limited experience with dynamic pages, apologies if I have it wrong.
Anthony.
When people want to upload pictures to your website, probably .jpg or .gif files, then the pages on your website do the work of uploading (maybe in combination with an upload component hosted by your host).
You will need to use an upload script depending on what scripting services are provided by your host (ASP, Pearl, PHP etc). Your host will have to enable a special folder on your site with modify access for web visitors to allow them to copy files there via your scripted web page.
If you achieve this then you will have a bunch of files in a folder on your website. How do people see them? Well there are a few scripts that will display a list of files in a folder and with a bit of fiddling you can make it a list of hyperlinks. Not too appealing, and once you get past 50 files it starts to become confusing.
To make it work nicely you need to use a database to store information about the files as they are uploaded which can then be used to find or group pictures by author, topic, date, etc. This means your web host needs to provide database services.
The above description assumes that you have limited experience with dynamic pages, apologies if I have it wrong.
Anthony.
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